A football hooligan has been given a banning order for hurling abuse at home fans during the Brighton and Hove Albion v Southampton match last month. Jonathan Coombs, 28, of Olive Road, Southampton, was given a Three-year football banning order by District Judge Tessa Szagun at...

A Portslade man has admitted outraging public decency by behaving in an indecent manner in Easthill Park. Michael Cohen, 53, of Oakdene Crescent, Mile Oak, pleaded guilty to the common law charge at Brighton Magistrates’ Court but denied pleasuring himself near children. He...

A Brighton builder replaced hundreds of pounds worth of lead stolen from a church roof free of charge so the Christmas Fair could still go on last weekend. Lee Broughton of Modernist Carpentry had been fixing the leaky roof of St Andrew’s Church hall in Hillside,...

Detectives investigating the reported rape of a 24-year-old local woman in Shoreham have now identified a man seen on a bus going into Brighton with her Friday 11 August. Following a news and social media appeal on Wednesday (29 November) the man came forward to police on the...

A Brighton lorry driver has been banned from driving for three years after he refused to take a breath test. Priit Oja, 39, of Lynchet Close, Hollingdean, pleaded guilty to the charge at Brighton Magistrates’ Court today (Thursday 30 November). He also admitted driving...

A pedestrian has been seriously injured after stepping out in front of a bus by St Peter’s Church this lunchtime. The man was treated at the scene before being taken to the Royal Sussex County Hospital. Roads were closed and traffic diverted along London Road as emergency...

Police have now passed their full file on the Shoreham air crash to the Crown Prosecution Service. West Sussex Senior Coroner Penelope Schofield has written to the families of the 11 men killed in the air crash in August 2015 to share the update. In a statement this morning, Ms...

More arrests could be made in the coming days as police work to identify those who took part in the violence at the Albion match against Crystal Palace on Tuesday night. This video of the moment Palace fans stormed the turnstiles, in which it’s believed a Palace steward...

The railways face a shake up as the government looks at ways to make the overcrowded network fit for the 21st century. The Southern and Thameslink franchise may be broken up. It currently includes the Gatwick Express and Great Northern services. They were brought together to try...